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Thomas Rowlandson’s caricature of a bluestocking salon descending into chaos in the absence of male guardianship

In the first decades of the 20th century, high hopes were raised of the adaptability of psychoanalysis into the pedagogical field. According to this new discourse, the possibilities of educational application became one of the most important research areas within the psychoanalytical community. However, several definitional and technical questions have remained unexplained. The aim of this article is to highlight the theoretical and methodological difficulties and opportunities regarding the concept of the so-called “psychoanalytically informed pedagogy” through the examination of the Malting House School, a unique and well-documented nursery in British educational history. This article focuses on Susan Isaacs’ educational practice from 1924 until 1927 and its connection with psychoanalytic theory. Isaacs’ critical reflections concerning her work at the Malting House School can offer a different perspective not just to the historical examination of psychoanalytic pedagogy, but generally to the scientific relationship between theory and practice. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

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The Northern Ireland Troubles bill shows the British government learnt nothing from the killing of Aidan McAnespie and the conflict in Ireland, argues Pádraig Ó Meiscill

That marker says Evangelia Settlement was established “as part of a larger progressive social movement from the late 1800s” directed at the less fortunate. Two Waco women, Ethel Dickson and Nell Symes, founded the settlement in 1908 to support children whose parents worked at Slayden-Kirksey Woolen Mills.

Vera Shlakman speaking with New York City Comptroller Harrison J. Goldin, left, in April 1982 after she and others received restitution from the city for being fired from college teaching positions because they had refused to testify in the 1950s about whether they were members of the Communist Party.